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by freyr 11y ago
In the past year or two, I've noticed a dramatic rise in the number of counterfeit products. If you buy directly from Amazon, it generally seems ok, but all bets are off when you buy from a third party. I've also noticed the incre
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by freyr 11y ago
> While Tech has ALL the disruption like Uber, where is the one for property market? ... 3D Printing that print GREAT quality houses in cheap and fast way The cost to build a house is relatively cheap -- that's not the problem. Th
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by freyr 11y ago
After receiving a job offer, she loaded up on credit card debt and signed a lease she couldn't afford. This was an obvious mistake, which led to a situation she should have seen coming. And that's OK. We've all made decisions
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by freyr 11y ago
> the pretrained model is Open Source. Google's face/landmark/label/text/logo detection models are open source? Or there exist open source pretrained models? The quality and size of the training set is (at leas
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by freyr 11y ago
> how do you grow your business into a multibillion-dollar company? Many people will allow themselves to be abused at work without doing anything about it. They'll commiserate with their coworkers, or vent on Glassdoor, or fantasi
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by freyr 11y ago
> face the income and career insecurity that comes with quitting Get a firm job offer before you give your notice. You won't face any income uncertainty, and you'll have much more leverage while negotiating with potential new
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by freyr 11y ago
So should we eliminate alligators?
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by freyr 11y ago
As did Facebook.
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by freyr 11y ago
In my experience, it's more common for students to study abroad while enrolled in school, and only 1.5% of students do this [1]. [1] http://www.nafsa.org/explore_international_education/advocac...
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by freyr 11y ago
> after the rent prices drop through the floor Ha, I wish. The market might cool off, but it's like saying it will be great moving to Manhattan once rent there becomes dirt cheap. Barring catastrophic events (e.g., war, a confluen
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by freyr 11y ago
I'll say it: I want a correction. I don't believe that the VC-funded app economy is delivering. I dislike that SF and SV have a de facto monopoly on the US tech sector, and to participate here I have to spend my entire paycheck to
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by freyr 11y ago
Notes just received a pretty significant upgrade. And Photos was upgraded recently as well -- for better or worse. You picked the two most recently upgraded apps as being in need of an upgrade.
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by freyr 11y ago
How much programming language syntax is really intuitive, as compared to what you've grown familiar with over time? Once you use the Go(/Jinja/Perl) syntax once or twice, then putting a minus sign to remove whitespace will be
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by freyr 11y ago
It's shaping up to be the biggest, juiciest business story of the past year or so, bordering on scandal. It looks like the WSJ is doing its job.
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by freyr 11y ago
Yes, though his compensation dropped to only $136M. It didn't stop him from recently buying a 180-ft yacht.
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by freyr 11y ago
In addition to its competitors, it may also provide Google's partners with more leverage during negotiations.
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by freyr 11y ago
Python 2.7 is starting to lose ground and Python 3 is the future. But a lot of older software companies (e.g., Google) have been using Python 2 for a long time, and the switch to Python 3 might not make sense in these cases. So it is still
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by freyr 11y ago
> It wasn't that Google wasn't capable of building a good social network. The the author doesn't dispute this. Building the site was "trivial," but determining what to build was the real challenge. And they f
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by freyr 11y ago
My understanding is that GoPro sells a small, rugged, waterproof digital camera that can easily be mounted on a bike/surfboard/whatever. It built a strong brand due to its first-mover advantage in the action sports community. But
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by freyr 11y ago
The original title is completely bewildering. And now it looks like an article entitled "Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art," possibly written by Paul Graham. Just write: Computer Programming as an Art By Donald E. Knuth It&#x2
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by freyr 11y ago
I appreciated that Uber eliminated tipping. But from reading driver forums, it seems like Uber drivers increasingly expect a cash tip, and retaliate against passengers who don't tip by assigning low ratings. [1] http://uberp
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by freyr 11y ago
It's a money loser in itself, but perhaps it improves the overall product. One thing I miss, since giving up cable, is instant content. I could turn the TV on and start watching something , before choosing to watch something else. Now
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by freyr 11y ago
> There's always been a question about whether a program is something alive or not since it intrinsically has some kind of autonomy at the very least, or it wouldn't be a program. Huh? A program, by definition, has no auton
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by freyr 11y ago
> Having to write HTML using either JSX or the ReactDOM syntax was a complete nightmare. Can you expand on this? I find writing JSX to be a breeze. JSX is basically HTML with a few small tweaks (e.g., for => htmlFor, class => cla
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by freyr 11y ago
That doesn't make car ownership scarce. It makes it low.
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by freyr 11y ago
When something is scarce, this implies there is scarcity, or inability to meet demand. Colloquially, "scarce" is used synonymously with "rare", but rare isn't a good word choice for something occurring 50% of the ti
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by freyr 11y ago
> a horrible job providing answers to even simple questions. If you think of it as a device that performs specific actions (i.e., plays audio, gives a weather forecast, sets a timer, etc.) via an voice interface, rather than a general
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by freyr 11y ago
You're eight years out of high school and you have a "successful career. Why would they pay for you?
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> Consumers don't care, until some listicle website or advertising firm points out that Amazon/Apple short you on your mp3s by not even offering 128kbps all the way through. A 128kbps threshold is a holdover from the days of
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by freyr 11y ago
Presented August 2010 at the IEEE Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P)

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